To [Comrade] Berzin

Dear Mr. Berzin! Lest I forget: give an allowance to Ilyin's wife1 (he is here). We must still help the families of those going to work in Russia.

Leuteisen should not be placed in the chancellery, but in agitation (in French Sweden and illegally in France).

Don't spare millions for illegal connections with France and agitation among the French and English.

When will my "State] and Rev[olution]" be published?? 2

Send it immediately.

For the French translation (without stopping it at all) I would add about Vandervelde. Write or telegraph.

Have Gorter give me a list of pamphlets and articles in all languages of theoretical interest to me.

Greetings from me to all.

Give my special greetings to Gilbo and Herzog.

Your Lenin.

P.S. So, be healthy and strictly observe the regime.

The inscription on the envelope

To [Comrade] Berzin. To the Russian Ambassador in Switzerland (from Lenin).

Published in part - Lenin V.I. Complete Collected Works, vol. 50, с. 194.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 25671 - autograph.

1Wife of F.N.Ilyin - M.V.Ilyina.

2Ya.A.Berzin organized the publication of Lenin's book "State and Revolution" in Bern (Switzerland) in German. In Lenin's library there was a copy of this book with the author's notes (see: Lenin's Library in the Kremlin. Catalog. M., 1961, pp. 109, 456. Currently stored in the RCCHIDNI, f. 2, op. 1, d. 7001). Lenin informed Berzin about the receipt of the book on November 1, 1918 (see: Lenin V.I., Vol. 50, p. 201).